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Brodeck's Report
2007 novel by Philippe Claudel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Brodeck's Report (French: Le Rapport de Brodeck) is a 2007 novel by the French writer Philippe Claudel. The narrative investigates the murder of a mysterious man in an indefinite country just after the war. The book won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.[1] The location and the time are never explicit in the novel. However the parallel with World War II is obvious.
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Reception
Helen Brown of The Daily Telegraph called the novel "deeply wise and classically beautiful". Brown wrote: "Brodeck's Report won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in the original French and John Cullen's English translation is as clear as a mountain stream. It is a modern masterpiece."[2] Globally, Complete Review saying on the consensus "Almost all very impressed".[3]
In Other Media
Manu Larcenet adapted it as a graphic novel of the same name in 2015.
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